Recognition

Ben Page achieved the "Questions for Breakfast" badge - meaning that at least 25 of his responses have been marked as correct. Ben, a consultant out of Chicago, has been a member of the community since last summer and is making his mark. He's contributed a couple of brain teasers, as well as helped out several people. Thank you for all you do, Ben!

Two people also received the "I Know Stuff!" badge (aka 10+ of their responses were marked as correct). Takaaki Koseki and Tableau employee, Cor Bader, both achieved this badge and are helping out this community. Thank you both!

Recognition

This past week, Tableau employee, Dan Cory achieved the "Question Slayer", meaning he has had 50 of his responses have been marked as correct. Dan is great at providing workarounds, solutions, and delivering feedback back to our internal team about what the community is talking about. He's a great resource - thank you for everything you do, Dan!

Carl Slifer achieved the "Questions for Breakfast" badge meaning 25 or more of his responses were marked as correct. Carl seems to have a knack for keeping track of numbers (just read his bio), and providing details on how to obtain a particular outcome in Tableau. Thank you Carl for being so involved and helping people get answers to their questions.

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Shivang Desai posted a question around Applying a filter to only specific parameter value. In his thread, he's using a parameter that references multiple fields (so that he can change the view), but would like for a filter to be applied only when one particular selection (or field in the parameter) is made. swaroop.gantela provided a solution that takes the calculation a step further by defining the field and it's constraints so that only it is filtered. There was an issue where mixing aggregates was keeping the solution from working, but ultimately, Shivang was able to achieve what he was looking for.

Shinichiro Murakami always provides clear step by step instructions, helping new members of the community - like this one: Hierarchy where Barb Reiser wanted to create a hierarchy within Tableau itself.

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Recognition

Three members achieved the "Questions for Breakfast" badge, meaning that at least 10 of their responses were marked as correct. Joey Minix, Tharashasank Davuluru, and Juracy Americo all have helped people get the answers to the questions that were needed. Hopefully, we'll continue to see them all in the community helping people out. On behalf of the community, thank you all!

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mark schukas was running into an issue where the calculated field he was placing on the color shelf was not being interpreted correctly by Tableau in Calculated Field on the Color marks card. Tableau employee, Nicholas Hara explained that since the end user was replacing the data source or connecting to a new file that the color legend needed to be reapplied. Looks like the issue was most likely resolved using the Tableau Data Server. Mark, let us know if your answer is resolved by marking how your problem was solved!

Sometimes it seems like a simple question, and it needs a fairly simple answer with some good old fashioned screenshots (and a Seinfeld reference never hurts either). In this example, Christy Smith asked How to Change Project Descriptions?Toby Erkson provided the steps and sent Christy on her way, while giving us a little insight into the fun he has as a Server Admin

Have a great week everybody and until next time - happy analyzing!!

As always, feel free to email me with suggestions or comments on this digest at trodgers@tableau.com

Recognition

Congratulations to Łukasz Majewski who achieved the "Questions for Breakfast!" badge - meaning that 25+ of his responses were marked as correct. Lukasz has been a member of the community for just over a year. Several of the posts he jumps on are date and date-time related - maybe one of his specialties?

Every now and again, you'll see a Tableau Developer ask a question in the Tableau Community to get feedback in a particular area. Danielle Marcos did just that in The specified item was not found. and got some valuable responses from many of you who speak multiple languages.

Ashish Singhal asked How to remove html tags from data. He got a couple of recommendations, including using the "Replace" and other string functions from Joe Oppelt, Regex from Pooja Gandhi, and cleaning up the data outside of Tableau from James Baker. I've used the first option in the past, and it only works if the structure is the same for each row of data - I ended up just dealing with some tags here and there.